Tesco UK Welwyn Garden City Hybrid Full-Time Apply by 24-Apr-2025
About the role
The Online Platform team at Tesco provide the infrastructure and developer tooling for high profile online properties such as our Tesco.com homepage, Groceries website, and online payment portal.
As a Software Development Engineer III within Online Platform, you will be responsible for managing our Azure infrastructure and CI/ CD pipelines that power Online at Tesco.
What is in it for you
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!
- Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
- Private medical insurance
- 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
- Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
You will be responsible for
- Provide ownership and leadership within Online Platform, providing technical insight, mentorship and support across the area.
- Provide accountability for the reliability of our infrastructure and associated pipelines, and able to contribute to the raising the quality bar of our codebases.
- Participate in various design and planning sessions and drive consistency and innovation across all the infrastructure teams within Online.
- Bring in the change mindset and collaborate with peers and stakeholders within and outside directorate.
- Provide the necessary ownership on resolution of production issues, drive the operational excellence.
You will need
- Proficiency in Python
- Experience running high throughput, highly available cloud infrastructure, preferably in Azure.
- Deep experience using Kubernetes, Redis, Git, GitHub Actions/ Azure DevOps.
- Experience deploying and configuring Kubernetes to run multiple workloads in an isolated, secure, fault redundant, scalable manner.
- Hands on experience using observability tools like New Relic, Splunk, Azure Monitor.
- Experience building reusable CI/ CD pipelines, used to run 1,000’s of builds a day by hundreds of engineers using tools like GitHub Actions/ Azure DevOps.
- Advocate of practising “Everything as Code”; Infrastructure as Code, Pipelines as Code, Observability at Code, using tools like Terraform.
- Experience configuring CDNs such as Akamai is a plus
About us
Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.
We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.
We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you. We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. If you are applying internally, please speak to the Hiring Manager about how this can work for you - Everyone is welcome at Tesco.